WATCH: The right to self defence

Retired career police officer and Juno News host Ron Chhinzer takes viewers through Pierre Poilievre's new proposal to allow Canadians to defend themselves against home invaders

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Canada is changing — and not in a way that leaves people feeling safer in their homes, their neighbourhoods, or on their streets.

Families across the country are asking the same haunting questions: why are violent repeat offenders allowed to walk free again and again, why do victims seem to be treated as an afterthought in our courts, and why does it feel like every week Canadians wake up to yet another preventable tragedy, one that never should have happened if the system had done its job.

Police officers use a blunt phrase to describe this cycle. They call it “catch and release” - a revolving door of leniency, one that gives endless chances to people who have already proven, time and again, that they cannot be trusted.

And the cost of this failure isn’t abstract. It isn’t a number in a government report or a line item on a spreadsheet. It is measured in the lives cut short, in families shattered, in neighbourhoods living on edge, and in the growing sense that ordinary people have been abandoned by the very institutions that were supposed to protect them.

On today episode, Ron breaks down Pierre Poilievre’s new proposal to allow Canadians to defend themselves against home invaders.

Next, Ron shares with you ten real stories of the crime wave sweeping out country. They are not statistics. They are not talking points. They are the lived reality of Canadians who have seen first-hand what happens when public safety collapses, when the system favours offenders over victims, and when communities are left to carry the burden of failure.

Every Friday, retired career police officer Ron Chhinzer takes viewers through some of the most shocking stories from coast to coast, explaining how the criminal ‘justice’ system is failing Canadians.